Early Life:
Early Life Vincent Tchenguiz, a British entrepreneur born in October 1956, is a native of Tehran. He hails from an Iraqi-Jewish background. His family left Iraq in 1948 and settled in Iran. At this time, the family name was changed from Khadouri to Tchenguiz. The fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 precipitated a move from the country.
Education :
Education Tchenguiz completed his Iranian education in Tehran in 1973. He subsequently completed a business administration course at Boston University and then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and a Bachelor of Science Honours in Economics from Montreal’s McGill University in 1978. A master’s degree in business administration from New York University followed two years later.
Career :
Career Having completed his university education, Tchenguiz gained employment in London with Prudential Bache as senior vice president of the fund management division, where he traded financial instruments. In 1986, Tchenguiz went on to another senior vice president position, this time trading financial instruments for Shearson Lehman Brothers in London. In 2002, Tchenguiz set up Consensus Business Group, assuming the position of chairman. Consensus functions as the principal advisor to a family trust, advising on an investment portfolio of residential freeholds and commercial properties valued at approximately 4.5 billion pounds. Consensus also advises on other investments, including health care, clean technology, homeland security and holdings in funds valued at around 200 million pounds.
Career :
Career The collapse of Kaupthing, an Icelandic bank, in October 2008 saw Vincent and the Tchenguiz Family Trust launch civil claims for damages in Iceland and England for an amount over 1.5 billion pounds. Tchenguiz was arrested by the British Serious Fraud Office in March 2011 in connection with an investigation into the Icelandic bank’s collapse. Tchenguiz was released later that day without charge. Kaupthing reached an out-of-court settlement in September 2011 with both the trust and Tchenguiz. Details remain confidential.
Currently :
Currently Tchenguiz, unmarried, resides in Mayfair, London, with additional homes in St. Tropez and Cape Town. He maintains a 130-foot Mangusta motor yacht on the French Riviera named “Veni Vidi Vici,” Latin for “I came, I saw, I conquered.”